Brief Encounters
Andrew O’Hagan
- Gielgud's Letters edited by Richard Mangan
Weidenfeld, 564 pp, £20.00, March 2004, ISBN 0 297 82989 0 - Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave by Alan Strachan
Weidenfeld, 484 pp, £25.00, April 2004, ISBN 0 297 60764 2
Norman Tebbit announced the other day that Tony Blair’s government had made both obesity and Aids in this country much worse by doing ‘everything it can to promote buggery’. Aside from anything else, this comment might cause us to reflect (buggerishly) on the England beloved of bigots like Tebbit and to see it as a land not only of warm beer and cricket on the village green, but also, more significantly, of generations of excellent buggers performing on radio, stage and television, warming the cockles of English hearts and occasionally laying down their trousers in pursuit of their genius.
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Vol. 26 No. 15 · 5 August 2004 » Andrew O’Hagan » Brief Encounters (print version)
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